The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Ummayyad Visual Culture

The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Ummayyad Visual Culture
ISBN-10
9004116389
ISBN-13
9789004116382
Category
Social Science
Pages
330
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
BRILL
Author
Finbarr Barry Flood

Description

A detailed and well-illustrated study of the history, architecture and symbolism of the early 8th-century mosque. The heavily annotated text includes analyses of the mosque's mosaic, interior decoration, clock and colonnade and broader discussions of the ambiguous meaning of the mosque's decorations, the topography of early medieval cities and the visual culture of Muslim architecture.

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